1 version 0.9.5 -- unreleased
3 . Added first draft of method to aggregate reports from many servers into
4 one email. Requires logtail, rsync, configuration of reporthost,
5 reportdirectory and reportuser in backupninja.conf. Configure cron to
6 run once a day, and individual backupninjas not to report by email their
7 status, then enjoy one email report from all hosts, rather than multiple
9 . Fixed checks on configuration files permissions, since the patch
10 applied to fix #370396 broke this, especially for configuration files
11 created with permissions 000 by an older ninjahelper version.
12 . Enhanced portability for other platforms
15 . Fixed shell command quoting issues, missing 'then' clauses, cleaned up
16 compress=yes to be less redundant and not create empty uncompressed file
18 . Fixed case where odd combination of configuration options caused sqldump
19 backups to get overwritten with an empty file (Closes: #402679)
21 . Support configuring PGSQLUSER for real, and document it a bit; this
22 broken support actually prevented pgsql handler to work for VServers
25 . Added cstream support to allow for bandwidth limiting
26 . Handle "keep = yes" to disable old backups removal (Closes: #424633)
28 . Fixed typo in rub handler that caused it to not work
29 . Changed to use lib/vserver code
32 . Fixed typo breaking things for VServers.
33 . Fix bug when vrootdir is on its own partition (Closes: #395928)
34 . Better sfdisk error and output handling: should now properly warn
35 when it does not manage to backup a partition table, and shut up when
36 it succeeds (Closes: #396632)
37 . Added option to not use sfdisk at all, useful for vserver/xen instances
38 that produce warnings about no harddisks found (Closes: #404071)
39 . Fixed example in example.sys to detail the __star__ in partitionsfile and
40 note why its necessary (Closes: #409192)
41 . Force C locale for sfdisk to ensure english words are found in grep
42 fixed 'make install' bug that failed if /etc/backup.d already existed
43 changed spaces to tabs in Makefile.am
44 updated examples/Makefile.am and handlers/Makefile.am to include rsnap/rub files
47 version 0.9.4 -- October 6th, 2006
49 . Fixed bug in toint(), and thus isnow(), which caused it
50 to not work when run from cron.
51 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
52 . Add admingroup option to configuration to allow a group that can
53 read/write configurations (instead of only allowing root). Checks
54 and complains about group-readable files only when the group differs
55 from the one in the configuration file (default is root as before).
56 Thanks to Martin Krafft for the patch (Closes: #370396).
57 . When determining which backup actions to make, find now follows
58 symlinks for $configdirectory
59 . Changed order of -s to mail for compatibility
60 . fixed permission stat call so it uses the --format supported by
61 coreutils (Closes: #382747)
62 . Added disk space report option (thanks Adam Kosmin)
67 . rotated rsync snapshops
68 . code from paulv@bikkel.org
70 . alternative to rsnap
71 . code from rhatto@riseup.net
73 . Fixed improper use of $vuserhome (Closes: #351083)
74 . Fixed erroneous removal of tmpfile when it didn't exit
75 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
76 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
77 . Compress for sqldumps now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
78 . Fixed --defaults-file now as --defaults-extra-file (thanks rhatto)
80 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
81 . Fixed su quote usage to be more posixy
82 . Fixed shell expansion, thanks Thomas Kotzian (Closes: #363297)
83 . postgres user UID is now the one from inside the vserver if necessary
84 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
85 . $PGSQLUSER is used instead of hardcoding user 'postgres' (although this is the default)
87 . Fixed inversed vsname emptiness check
89 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
90 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
91 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
92 between various readlink versions in this field.
93 . Removed overzealous vsnames check
94 . Now works if testconnect=no and if $test is not defined.
95 . add $sshoptions config parameter in [dest] section of config so
96 connections to ports other than 22 can be made by adding the
97 following to the top of the handler config:
98 options = --remote-schema 'ssh -p REMOTE-PORT -C %s rdiff-backup
101 . Symlink and globbing support in include/exclude/vsinclude
102 clarification: globbing is fully supported again, whereas no attempt
103 is done to dereference symlinks anymore, due to incompatibilities
104 between various readlink versions in this field.
105 . Removed over zealous vsnames check
106 . Does not pretend anymore that duplicity can work without
108 . Support duplicity 0.4.2 (with Debian patches applied; upstream's
109 0.4.3 will integrate them); documented how to write sftp-compatible
110 sshoptions (Closes: #388543)
111 . Now forbid to (try to) include /.
113 . Many more system checks were added, (thanks to Petr Klíma)
114 . Added warning if no devices were found (thanks Ranier Zocholl)
115 . Enhanced debian package selections to include purged packages (thanks
117 . Removed warning about vserver not running (thanks anarcat)
119 . Compress now happens in-line to save some disk space (Closes: #370778)
121 . Added nicelevel option (thanks rhatto)
123 . fixed problem when src was set to the trac repo directly (Closes: #382737)
126 . init_vservers: fixed Debian bug #351083 (improper readlink syntax)
127 . found_vservers: escaped special grep repetition character +
128 . forced mktemp to use a template with a name to be more compatible with
129 different versions of mktemp, thanks anarcat
131 . Recursively ignore subdirs in /etc/backup.d (Closes: #361102)
132 . Fix configdirectory error that forced you to use /etc/backup.d, thanks anarcat
133 . When determining which backup actions to list, find now follows
134 symlinks for $configdirectory
135 . Stop checking helpers perms: both "make install" and distros packages
136 install them with appropriate permissions, it's overzealous to check
137 this at runtime, and is more complicated to do with current
140 . Fix: signing was enabled with symmetric encryption.
141 changed cron permissions to 644
142 changed /etc/backup.d permissions to 0770 (for admingroup)
143 minor documentation fixes
144 improved RPM build process allowing 'make rpm-package' and 'make
145 srpm-package' targets, also fixes permissions on man directories,
146 cleans up RPM-related files during distclean, and adds default
147 EDITOR for "autogen.sh -f" if none is set. (thanks Robert Napier)
149 version 0.9.3 -- February 1st, 2006
153 . added (commented out) the various default paths to
154 programs such as PGSQLDUMP, so that users can figure
155 out more easily they can customize them
157 . now uses vservers lib to initialize vservers support
159 duplicity, mysql, pgsql, rdiff, svn, sys: start to use (at different
160 degrees) new lib/vserver functionality
162 . fixed no user defaults file processing
164 . fixed (again...) globbing in include and exclude options (Debian bug
165 #348022, follow-up to #338796)
166 . warn if vsnames or vsinclude is enabled while vservers support is
167 disabled in backupninja.conf
168 . now works when multiple vservers names are given (separated by space)
169 in vsnames config variable
171 . fixed globbing bug in include, exclude and vsinclude options
172 . it's now possible to choose exactly which vservers should be
173 backed-up, as it already was with duplicity handler, with the
174 "vsnames" configuration setting
177 . fixed errors in create remote dir
178 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
179 . fixed bug which caused only first include/exclude dir to
181 . fixed globbing bug with exclude
183 . now reports error if the helper script has a syntax error or bombs out.
184 . code formatting cleanup (three spaces indent)
187 . init_vservers: improved VROOTDIR detection
188 . init_vservers: test in a stricter way the real vservers availability
189 . init_vservers: canonicalize VROOTDIR (since duplicity et al.
190 don't follow symlinks)
191 . init_vservers: warn if vservers are enabled but no vserver is found
192 . new function: vservers_exist
195 . formDisplay does not return exit status.
197 version 0.9.2 -- December 29, 2005
199 fixed broken toint() which caused when "everyday" problems
200 backupninja.conf.5 updated to include "when" and "vservers"
202 . moved to lib/ some code that has to be shared between
203 backupninja and ninjahelper
206 . mkdir subdirectory problem fixed
208 . globbing support fixed in include and exclude options
209 . different signing and encrypting key support added
210 . fixed erroneous comments in example.dup about the way
211 GnuPG-related options are used
213 . handler vserver bugs fixed and debug output enhanced
214 ninjahelper(s) changes
215 vserver-related functions added to lib/vservers.in
216 added man/ninjahelper.1 man page
218 . was missing in Makefile.am/.in
220 . used to expand '*' in default source directories
221 . the "Cancel" buttons used to have a weird behaviour
222 . updated to include Vserver selection
224 . forbid the user to choose an empty database set
225 . "Cancel" button now does what it is meant to do
227 . enhanced for vserver support
228 . now able to select databases and dump directory
230 . new handler added (with Vserver support)
232 version 0.9.1 -- November 05 2005
233 rearranged source so that it is relocatable with autotools
234 (thanks to Petr Klíma petr.klima@madeta-group.cz)
235 fixed many bugs in rdiff helper
236 rdiff handler does not require 'label' (for real this time?)
237 added makecd ninjahelper
238 (thanks to Stefani stefani@riseup.net)
239 made ninjahelper create files with mode 600 rather than 000
240 changed subversion handler to use svnadmin hotcopy instead of
241 the unsupported hot-copy.py script, which was moved in Debian
242 update rdiff ninjahelper
243 now detects and auto-install rdiff-backup on the remote
244 machine if possible, also tests the remote backup directory
245 and offers to create it if it doesn't exist
247 version 0.9 -- October 19 2005
248 *** IMPORTANT CHANGE, UPGRADE AT ONCE ***
249 fixed insecure temporary file creation
250 *****************************************
251 removed erroneous magic file marker in pgsql handler
252 fixed incorrect find positional
253 changed direct grep of /etc/passwd to getent passwd.
254 rdiff helper has much better information on failed ssh attempt
255 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
256 rdiff handler now supports remote source and local dest.
257 (patch from cmccallum@thecsl.org).
258 man pages are greatly improved.
260 version 0.8 -- September 15 2005
261 added pgsql (PostgreSQL) handler, with vservers support.
262 added vservers support to duplicity handler
263 Note: the configuration is a bit different than the rdiff
264 handler's one, but the default behavior is the same:
265 have a look at example.dup.
267 documented .disabled method.
268 corrected VROOTDIR default value.
269 added ninjahelper to the install instructions.
270 improved rdiff, dup and sys handlers' vservers support
271 prevent vserver-debiantools' $VROOTDIR/ARCHIVES directory
272 to be seen as a vserver
273 changes to sys handler
274 make use of configurable $VSERVERINFO instead of hard-coded vserver-info.
275 fixed dpkg existence test inside vserver.
277 changes to pgsql handler
278 now checks if the specified vserver is running.
279 now checks if $PGSQLDUMP/$PGSQLDUMPALL are available where needed.
280 now checks if "postgres" user exists on the host/vserver.
281 changes to ninjahelper
282 check_perms() does not die anymore on group/world readable
283 helper scripts (now consistent with the "helper scripts
284 must not be group or world writable!" error msg).
285 xedit action now tries $EDITOR, then /etc/alternatives/editor,
286 then nano, vim and vi, and aborts if none of these exists.
287 added helper for pgsql handler.
288 rdiff handler now does not require 'label'
289 changes to mysql and svn handlers' vservers support
290 these handlers now check if the source vserver is running
291 added 'ignores' for mysql handler. (thanks Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr)
293 version 0.7 -- July 26 2005
294 added ninjahelper: a dialog based wizard for creating backupninja configs.
295 considerably improved and changed the log file output.
296 you can now disable actions with .disabled (this is new preferred method).
297 added makecd handler and example.makecd for backing up to cd/dvd (thanks stef).
298 fixed bug when specifying multiple 'when' options.
300 version 0.6 -- June 16 2005
301 ldap handler has new options: backup method to use (ldapsearch or
302 slapcat), restart, passwordfile and binddn. Default backup method
303 is set to ldapsearch as this is safer
304 ******************************************************************
305 NOTE: to get the previous default behavior with the ldap handler,
306 you must set "method = slapcat". The new default is ldapsearch.
307 ******************************************************************
308 implemented fix so that the main script will echo fatal errors rather
309 than being silent about them, this means an error message every hour
310 if there is a major configuration problem (not a handler problem)
311 added vserver support to main script and to the handlers: mysql, svn, sys, rdiff
312 changes to duplicity handler (thanks intrigeri!):
313 "keep = yes" now disables file cleaning on desthost
314 added "sign" option for backups signing
315 added "encryptkey" option to specify the gpg key to use
316 split config into [source], [gpg] and [dest] sections
317 added "nicelevel" option
318 added "testconnect" option
319 added "sshoptions" option (will be passed to ssh/scp)
320 added "bandwidthlimit" option
321 example.dup example config file for duplicity handler
322 added trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) environment handler (thanks Charles Lepple!)
323 added configfile option to mysql handler
324 the default is /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. with this,
325 sqldump doesn't need dbusername. (hotcopy still does).
326 fixed bug in mysql handler which caused some passwords to not work.
327 (.my.cnf files now have double quotes around password)
328 can now pass options to hwinfo and sfdisk in sys handler.
330 version 0.5 -- April 12 2005
331 rdiff handler works when remote sshd has a banner
332 rdiff handler supports local dest
333 logfile is created if it doesn't exist
334 added "when = hourly"
335 added optional 'nicelevel' to rdiff handler
336 fixed bug where actions were not run in numeric order.
337 improved 'when' parsing.
339 version 0.4.4 -- March 18 2005
340 results of handlers are now read line by line.
341 changes to rdiff handler: added "options", and "keep" is
342 not necessarily days now (ie, it will pass straight through to
343 rdiff-backup if the keep has a unit on it, otherwise it adds the 'D').
344 added dup handler (still pretty beta)
345 added maildir handler (very specialized handler)
346 added --run option (runs the specified action file)
347 improved sys handler, now uses hwinfo
348 added subversion hotbackup handler, svn.
349 added PATH to cron.d file, which fixes file not found errors.
351 version 0.4.2 -- Jan 6 2005
352 fixed bug which caused a report email to be sent even if no actions were run.
353 fixed bug where multiple handler status messages were ignored
354 added status in the subject line of report emails
356 version 0.4.1 -- Jan 3 2005
357 added $usecolors and now more conservative about when colors are echoed.
358 fixed major bug, 'when' actually works now.
359 replaced debug function with debug, info, warning, error, fatal.
360 added --now option to force all actions to be performed now.
362 version 0.4 -- Dec 26 2004
363 added "when" option, so that all configs can specify when
365 added reportsuccess and reportwarning config options
366 added .sys handler (hardware, packages, partitions).
368 version 0.3.4 -- Dec 8 2004
369 fixed numerical variable quoting compatibility with older wc
370 fixed stderr redirect bug
371 some comments in example.rdiff
373 version 0.3.3 -- Nov 10 2004
374 '*' (asterisk) works now in rdiff config files
375 works now with gawk as well as mawk
376 many bug fixes to ldap handler
377 paths to helper scripts can be configured in global config
378 does not require /usr/bin/stat
380 version 0.3.2 -- Sept 29 2004
381 handler scripts are no longer executable (to comply with debian policy)
382 handler error and warning messages are sent with the notify email
384 version 0.3.1 -- Sept 5 2004
386 moved sh support to a handler script
387 add test mode, where no action is taken.
389 force only root can read /etc/backup.d/*
390 fixed missing equals symbols in example.rdiff
391 changed backupninja executable to be /usr/sbin rather than /usr/bin
393 version 0.3 -- Oct 20 2004
394 ** IMPORTANT ** all config files are now ini style, not apache style
395 rewrote all scripts in bash for portability
396 added drop-in backupninja lib directory (/usr/share/backupninja)
397 all scripts are now run as root
399 version 0.2 -- Oct 14 2004
400 move distribution folder ./cron.d to ./etc/cron.d
401 fixed bug: removed printr of excludes (!)
402 added support for changing the user/group in rdiff sources.
403 added support for .mysql config files.
405 version 0.1 -- Oct 8 2004